Prof. Beatrice Heuser is an historian and political scientist who holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow. She has also taught at King’s College London in the Department of War Studies, at the University of Reading, and has taught or held visiting professorships at the Universities of Reims and Potsdam, Sciences Po’ Paris and Reims, the University of Rome III, the Bundeswehr University and the MGIMO University. She spent a year at NATO Headquarters as a Consultant/Intern, and has worked as Director of Studies of the German Bundeswehr’s military history research office. She is the author of many books, including  WAR: A genealogy of Western ideas and practices (2022), Strategy before Clausewitz (2017), The Evolution of Strategy (2010), Reading Clausewitz (2002).